Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Applies cement, sand, pigment, and marble chips to floors, stairways, and cabinet fixtures to attain durable and decorative surfacing according to specifications and drawings: Spreads roofing paper on surface of foundation. Spreads mixture of sand, cement, and water over surface with trowel to form terrazzo base. Cuts metal division strips and presses them into terrazzo base so that top edges form desired design or pattern and define level of finished floor surface. Spreads mixture of marble chips, cement, pigment, and water over terrazzo base to form finished surface, using float and trowel. Scatters marble chips over finished surface. Pushes roller over surface to imbed chips. Allows surface to dry, and pushes electric-powered surfacing machine over floor to grind and polish terrazzo surface. Grinds curved surfaces and areas inaccessible to surfacing machine, such as stairways and cabinet tops, with portable hand grinder. May precast terrazzo blocks in wooden forms. May perform finishing operations only and be designated Terrazzo Polisher (construction). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
floor grinder | 9 |
concrete floor grinder | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-r" | |
-2 letters: reflooding. | |
-3 letters: foredoing, forlorner, gondolier, refolding, reroofing. | |
-4 letters: drooling, flooding, flooring, florigen, fordoing, goodlier, infolder, ordering, rodeoing, roofline. | |
-5 letters: eidolon, eroding, firedog, flinder, flinger, flooder, floored, floorer, folding, folioed, fondler, fooling, fording, fordone, foreign, forgoer, forgone, forlorn, fringed, girdler, glenoid, gloried, godlier, goofier, grinder, grodier, groined, ignored, ignorer, loonier, lording, loriner, negroid, onefold, redoing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4C 4F 4F 52      47 52 49 4E 44 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001100 01001111 01001111 01010010 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F L O O R   G R I N D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004C 004F 004F 0052      0047 0052 0049 004E 0044 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4046494952241524348383952 |
| 1. Expressions: Internet 2. Anagrams 3. Orthography 4. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.